George Coles

Also George Coles of Amberley

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Life

  1. c. 1559
    Born
    Wootton, Somerset, England

    "Born in Wootton, Somersetshire. Aged about 65 years," deposition of 30 Oct 1624 (WSRO Ep/I/11/13, f. 233).

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  2. 1624
    Lived
    30 Oct 1624, Amberley, Sussex, England

    "George Coles of Amberley, yeoman, where he had lived some 23 years," by his deposition in the Chichester consistory court (WSRO Ep/I/11/13, f. 233).

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Family

Parents
Not known
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Pedigree

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Notes

Brother of Alice (Coles) Freeman, so uncle of Edmund Freeman of Sandwich. “George Coles of Amberley, yeoman, where he had lived some 23 years,” by his deposition of 30 Oct 1624 in the Chichester consistory court, so at Amberley from about 1601. Tenant of the malthouse in Amberley Castle in 1610 and 1623. Sued in 1622 by a Southwark tanner over “dealings in oaken bark” (TNA REQ 2/404/76). Trustee for the Freeman family in the settlement of 1620.

Open questions

  • Which of the several Woottons in Somerset?
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